Facts

The guides tell you what to do. These tell you what is true, including the places where the honest answer is that nobody has established it yet. Several of these pages exist mainly to say so about claims this category repeats constantly.

• 01

  THC drinks, by the numbers

  What the market actually looks like when you count it, measured from every product in this database rather than from a press release.

  150drinks counted, each read off the brand’s own page
• 02

  What THC actually is

  One molecule, a receptor system named after it, and the handful of things about it that are settled rather than marketed.

• 03

  THC and CBD

  They come from the same plant and do almost opposite things. The "balancing" claim on the can is the part to be careful with.

  100of 150 never state a CBD figure
• 04

  THC and your health

  What the evidence supports, what it does not, and why a drink is not a health product no matter what the label says.

• 05

  THC drinks against alcohol

  A fair comparison on calories, hangover, dependence and harm, and the three places the comparison is usually rigged.

  97%of the 146 that publish a serving dose are 10mg or under